[HTML][HTML] Tropical and subtropical dendrochronology: Approaches, applications, and prospects

A Quesada-Román, JA Ballesteros-Cánovas… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Tropical and subtropical forests cover only 7% of the Earth's land surface. Yet, they host
nearly half of global tree density with a high species number (∼ 40,000 species), store up to …

Tropical Trees Will Need to Acclimate to Rising Temperatures—But Can They?

KJ Feeley, M Bernal-Escobar, R Fortier, AT Kullberg - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
For tropical forests to survive anthropogenic global warming, trees will need to avoid rising
temperatures through range shifts and “species migrations” or tolerate the newly emerging …

Increasing atmospheric dryness reduces boreal forest tree growth

A Mirabel, MP Girardin, J Metsaranta, D Way… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Rising atmospheric vapour pressure deficit (VPD) associated with climate change affects
boreal forest growth via stomatal closure and soil dryness. However, the relationship …

Enhanced future vegetation growth with elevated carbon dioxide concentrations could increase fire activity

RJ Allen, J Gomez, LW Horowitz… - Communications Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Many regions of the planet have experienced an increase in fire activity in recent decades.
Although such increases are consistent with warming and drying under continued climate …

Warming-induced drought leads to tree growth decline in subtropics: evidence from tree rings in central China

M Jing, L Zhu, S Liu, Y Cao, Y Zhu, W Yan - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Subtropical forests provide diverse ecosystem services to human society. However, how
subtropical tree species respond to climate change is still unclear. Using a …

High vapour pressure deficit enhances turgor limitation of stem growth in an Asian tropical rainforest tree

RL Peters, A Kaewmano, PL Fu, ZX Fan… - Plant, Cell & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forests are experiencing increases in vapour pressure deficit (D), with possible
negative impacts on tree growth. Tree‐growth reduction due to rising D is commonly …

Diel and seasonal stem growth responses to climatic variation are consistent across species in a subtropical tree community

B Zhou, F Sterck, B Kruijt, ZX Fan… - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how intra‐annual stem growth responds to atmospheric and soil conditions
is essential for assessing the effects of climate extremes on forest productivity. In species …

TreeGOER: A database with globally observed environmental ranges for 48,129 tree species

R Kindt - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The TreeGOER (Tree Globally Observed Environmental Ranges) database
provides information for most known tree species of their environmental ranges for 38 …

Consistent trends in dry spell length in recent observations and future projections

CM Wainwright, RP Allan… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We identify global observed changes in dry‐spell characteristics that are consistent with
future projections and involve common physical drivers. Future projections of longer dry …

Tree rings in Tsuga dumosa reveal increasing drought variability in subtropical southwest China over the past two centuries

YL Yin, Z Zaw, XH Peng, H Zhang, PL Fu… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
High-resolution palaeoclimate proxy records have been lacking for the subtropical region of
southwest China. To gain insights into hydroclimate variability in central Yunnan Province …